For three years now, Fandemonium has brought Outskirts Press Facebook fans together to experience the joy of publishing with us first-hand. Submit your poetry, short stories, excerpts, recipes or anecdotes for free today for your chance to be published in the 4th Annual Outskirts Press Facebook anthology, Fandemonium, now through April 30, 2014. Do you … Continue reading How to Enter Your Submission to Facebook for Fandemonium Anthology
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We hope you are having a very Happy Labor Day! Summer is now over, and although it may seem early, the holidays are right around the corner. Soon we will all be thinking about holiday shopping and, more importantly, holiday food! This year Outskirts Press is bringing our Facebook fans together to produce a holiday … Continue reading Now Accepting Submissions for the First Holiday Recipe Book from Outskirts Press
With the emergence of YouTube and other video websites, in many ways social media has become a largely video-centric world. Consumers of news, pop culture, marketing and other information, it seems, are digesting more of that information in video format. That's not to say the written word is dying out - books do, and will, … Continue reading A Video is Worth a Thousand Words
There is no sure-fire formula to writing romance, and certainly no formula for making that self-published romance novel successful. However, there are a number of "rules" for romance writing that will improve your odds of creating a high quality, readable bodice-ripper. 1. Know thy audience. With something as intimate as romance, you must know who … Continue reading Love Rules: 5 Tips for Budding Romance Writers in Self-Publishing
When you're deeply immersed in the writing process, it can be difficult to think ahead to the moment your self-published book ends up in a reader's hands. If you think book marketing is the right time to start thinking about how to reach your target audience, you'd be wrong! In fact, that reader should be … Continue reading How to Reach the Right Audience with Your Self-Published Book
Perhaps you really can't judge a book by its cover … but most buyers will anyway, at least to some degree. Readers seeing your book for the first time will draw a number of conclusions about you, your story and the quality of your product within milliseconds, often based solely on the impressions created by … Continue reading How to Get the Right Cover for Your Self-Published Book
Outskirts Press is bursting with LOVE for self-publishing authors this February. Would you love to share in the love? Better yet, would you love to win a free laptop computer with Windows 8? Here's your chance to do both: Announcing our 2nd Annual "Show Us Your Love" social media event and video contest. One talented … Continue reading Win a FREE laptop when you Show Us Your Love this February
Although writing is usually done solo -- or at best, in very small groups -- it is at its core a social medium. That is to say, we write to express human ideas, to reach out, to change thoughts, feelings and opinions, and to explore our humanity. So, who says you should do all that … Continue reading Top Apps for Writers: Blogging and Social Media
Join Outskirts Press in celebrating National Poetry Month this April and you could be one of 4 Facebook fans winning our new Poetry Publishing Kit (valued at $99). Since 1996, publishers, readers, booksellers, libraries, organizations, and poets around the U.S. have come together to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture. Thousands of businesses and … Continue reading Celebrate National Poetry Month With a Free Poetry Publishing Kit
Fandemonium, the first anthology from Outskirts Press to exclusively feature work from its Facebook friends, was a hit among fans of the publisher. Royalties from the sale of this anthology all went to benefit the American Red Cross – the charity chosen by both contributing and non-contributing fans on a Facebook poll. Because the initial … Continue reading Current and Aspiring Writers Can Publish Their Work for No Cost in the New Outskirts Press Facebook Anthology